Job Title

Finance Business Partner

Job Description

You are responsible for

• Conduct financial consolidation activities , ensure the HS financials can be consolidated with timeliness and quality
• Participate in forecasting and planning cycle of the business, including AOP, quarterly rolling forecasting, monthly latest view, strategic planning and other planning activities.
• Conduct management analysis on business performance, propose corrective actions and monitor implementation of those actions to drive the delivery of the business and financial plans
• Support Finance Business Partner to ensures correct and timely Philips management, statutory and fiscal reporting, including financials analysis/input into the monthly/quarterly performance review decks (MPR/QPR)
• Communicate with global team on market performance, forecast, strategic plan, portfolio, etc.
• Plan and manage Selling Expense of Health Systems, including different functions and businesses
• Monthly tracking and analysis of Selling expense performance by cost center/ department/ business, identify gaps, and drive corrective actions
• Track productivity funnel and establish/control link of productivity into the P&L
• Track Working Capital performance of the businesses
• Enabling functions supervisory responsibility: control actual expenses, hosted heads, ensure SLA structure is in place, perform true-ups according to contractual agreements, plan future costs and preparing tax back-up documentation for external costs, etc.
• Cross function coordination with accounting GBS, global FP&A team, logistics, marketing, sales, operation team, HR, to facilitate daily operation
• Cooperate with accounting team to ensure the booking timeliness and accuracy
• Ensure a strong and efficient internal control system in place
• Other ad hoc support to business/market

You are a part of

Professional Finance team of Philips China, base in Shanghai, report to Finance Business Partner, Greater China.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• Bachelor or Master degree in Finance and/ or Accounting orientated study
• 5 years working experience, including solid basis and experience in Accounting & Internal Control
• Strong Convincing communication skills
• Intellectual capacity to digest complex information, see trends and analysis through data.
• Requires the ability to change the thinking of, or gain acceptance from, others in sensitive situations, without damage to the relationship
• Having wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.      
• Can work independently with limited supervision, self-motivated, flexible, can work under pressure
• Advanced technical skills in Excel, ERP (SAP preferred) and PowerPoint,  familiar with business procedures in China, basic tax knowledge
• Good communication skills in both Chinese and English, oral and written;

In return, we offer you

A path towards your most rewarding career.  Succeeding in this role in a complex environment will open many doors for your long term career, in other areas in Philips or otherwise. We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person. Thus, we offer competitive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways. Learn more by watching this video.

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